Musée royal de Mariemont
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| Location | Chaussée de Mariemont 100 B-7140 Morlanwelz, Belgium |
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| Coordinates | 50°28′04″N 4°13′58″E / 50.467739°N 4.232756°E |
| Website | www |
The Royal Museum of Mariemont (
Mariemont, near Morlanwelz, in Belgium. It is constituted around the personal collection of art and antiquities owned by the industrialist Raoul Warocqué
(1870–1917), which were bequeathed to the Belgian state on his death.
Museum and collection
The museum displays a notable collection of
Province of Hainaut
are also displayed.
The original Château Warocqué, in which the museum was housed, was destroyed by fire in 1960. The current museum is housed in a building designed by the architect Roger Bastin, which was opened in 1975.
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View of the museum building, including the small section of the original Château which survived the fire of 1960 -
One of the museum's galleries, holding Chinese antiquities -
Roman frescos from Boscoreale, Italy -
Ancient Greek statuettes
References
- ^ Quertinmont, Arnaud (1 December 2012). "Une scénographie de la Chrétienté et de l'Islam" [A scenography of Christianity and Islam] (in French). Morlanwelz: Musée royal de Mariemont. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
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